The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-10
British lnsolence on the
Western Side is Full
ly Understood.
president Cleveland Under
stands IL: Also the Depart
ncnt al state.
The old Rotten wooden Tub.
called II Navy are Being
Cleared for Action. Bah.
The iimnroe Dv,triu,


WASHiNGrON, April 9 Although
no Official confirmation has been re-
ceived at the departments OF state
of the report that Great Britain has
threatened to seize Tortugas Island,
yet 1t j. learned that the American
consul at llayu has kept the depart
mcnt fully Informed as to tho nature
of the British claim, aud all proceed
ings OF tha' government against llayti
during the past three or four years.
Now that the matter is reported 10
have assumed so serious IA phase. the
government, with view of being
prepared
FOR ANY EAIERG ENCN
is beginning to canvass its resources
in case II should become necessary to
again assert the intention OF this
country to maintain the Monroe doc
trine TO the extent of protecting the
small republics of the American cons
tinent against the encroachments of
European powers. The result OF in
uuiries into the naval resource OF the
United states is not encouraging. SO
far, several
VESSELS.
forming the training squadron. are
now Oh the way northward from
the West Indies and at present there
is no vessel bearing tho American
flag in Hay tian waters. The lantic
is at Key west, and the Galena at As.
piuwall and it is possible that one
or both of these may bo ordered to
that vicinity OF llayti to represent
the Bitcd States Government in the
event it may become necessary to
enter formal protest against Euro
/ peRu cncroacllmcnti ia the Westlndtcs,
Barker Eban Ever.
/ CHICAGO, April 9.-Ihc News this
morning says the effort to identity
W k. Rogers, now IA rich citizen OF
oonoma, California, rs William kis.
sane, opens up what proves to he u
very Old ami p 1inill sore Amasa
Chaplin, for twenty eight years II res
ident of Chicago and for he last six
teen years connected with SrlI 4
schwartz, abrJtber of the wife of Cap
tain Cummings. who cut consider
able figure in lie Of Sidney &. Bur
ton, according TO BurtUn's account.
aud that of his daughter, Mrs, Bow
man, who il now striving to locate
kissaue. Mr. Capin said to a Tcpor-
ter "As stated in the dispatches in
the papers, to-day, | was one OF the
persons who WAC arrested for the
burning OF the Martha Washington
and the trial was AT Columbus Ohio.
Oar lawyers, at the time, were so
Gil .ttgI that thnrn had
been no conspiracy, that they were
disposed MOTTO attempt to make the
cate. We were all tried aud honor
ally acquitted. Burton dii not pro-
dueo 81 scintilla of evidence a2Ain-t
Ms. lie was working Tor the iusur
ahCe companies, and ns he had begun
the prosecution he tried desperately
hard to convict us simply regarded
him as u monOnahlaC. After the trial
ended, IN about II year think, he " as
indicted tor perjury. and when be
died he was under the surveillance OF
, the authorities. A TO Captain Cum
hinge, | didn't know him until 1886
aud after he had been married 20 my
ste, some two years, that stOtem snt
about her going down on the Rio
GrAndc and putting II pistol to Cum
mih2s' head aud compelling him
10 MARE, HtE
is untrue. Cummings was a suller in
the Mclean war, aud he and my Sic
ter were married at New Orleans.
think it was in 1878. Mr., Cummings
has been dead fourteen or fifteen
years. she lived here in Chicago six
or seven years and had qGilc u circle
Of acquaintances here, who knew that
she was nOta woman 10 walk the
lloor inaragc, rs Burton has described
and lnumaed to II stranger, with
ilashipg eyes, by saying she could hit
quarter of a dollar across the room
with pistol" II regret the opening
up of this old sore" continued Mr.
Chaplin. I'VE are, all OF us, hon
orably acquitted Of the crime
charged thirty-four years ago lived
IN Cincinnati eight years after the
triel and was respected citilentherc.
Ny children have grown up, and they
know nothing OF this, aud it 10 pretty
hard on an old man like me TO have
the matter brought before them now.
with ourselves personally acquitted,
and our prosecution dying under al
indictment for perjury, do not see
why the press wants to take up the
story OF Burton's daughter, Mrs.
Bowman, and spread 1t over the coun-
try. should Judge from the descrip.
lion, that this man, Rogers, is Kissane
have not known where he was since |
left Cincinnati. Amasa" Chaplin is
j6 years Of age.
TALMAGE ON KIssANR.
New York, April 9,-Itev. DIR,
I'almsge talked. of the Kisssne